Vessels owned and operated by community groups or clubs may or may not be domestic commercial vessels.

All domestic commercial vessels must have a certificate of survey unless exempt.

Be prepared before your trip. Stay safe on land.

Purpose To ensure that navigation corridors are used appropriately when planning on ECDIS, and to ensure that a voyage plan approved by the ship’s Master is executed within the planne

We consulted you about vessel reporting systems.

Standards for domestic commercial vessels, largely replaced by the NSCV for new vessels.

In rough weather, early in the morning of 24 May, about 50 containers were lost overboard from the Singapore-flagged container ship APL England. Read our regular updates.

Find out about the special arrangements for vessels which meet the definition of ‘tender’ under the national law.

As manager of Australia’s National Plan, we have a fixed wing aerial dispersant capability as a key component of Australia’s capacity to respond to oil spills in the marine environment.

Operators of Regulated Australian Vessels (RAV) and Foreign Vessels, as well as the shippers of livestock, have obligations when loading and transporting livestock from Australia.

Knowledge of regulations and duties will help you navigate safely on the seas.

This Marine Notice reminds vessel masters, owners and operators about the coastal pilotage requirements that apply within the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait, as prescribed in Marine Order 54 (Coastal pilotage) 2014 (MO54).

Mandatory coastal pilotage is a protective measure used in environmentally fragile or areas potentially hazardous to navigation.

In this edition we explain correct and incorrect use of conditions.

Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL Annex VI) allows ships to use exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) to comply with the 0.50 per cent m/m sulphur fuel oil limit that commenced on 1 January 2020